Cookbooks are said to be the hottest category in trade publishing right now, but it’s probably a stretch to say they’re “taking over”. However, I wasted quite a bit of time creating the following (somewhat silly) table, counting the number of titles from various publishers/imprints I’ve acquired over the years. There are an awful lot of them, and a few you’d never expect — it seems that every trade publisher these days really does have to have a cookbook or two in their list to be considered “with it”. The publishers/imprints are shown with their current ownership, which is necessarily anachronistic given the consolidation in the industry over the past three decades. (I couldn’t use my library database for this because I don’t track subject categories in my database, and I only track publishers by ISBN prefix, not imprint.)

Parent	Publisher	Imprint	# titles
Penguin Random House	Crown Publishing Group	Ten Speed Press	13
		Clarkson Potter	5
		Pam Krauss	1
	Knopf Doubleday	Alfred A. Knopf	4
	Random House		1
	Penguin USA	Viking	1
Chronicle Books (dist. by Hachette)			12
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt			11
La Martinière Group	Abrams	Stewart, Tabori & Chang	9
Lagardère Group	Hachette Book Group USA	Hyperion	1
		Little, Brown	4
		Grand Central Life & Style	1
	Perseus Books Group	Running Press	2
	Octopus Publishing Group	Mitchell Beazley	1
CBS Corp.	Simon & Schuster	Charles Scribner’s Sons	6
		Simon & Schuster	1
W. W. Norton		Countryman Press	4
		W. W. Norton	3
Workman Publishing Group		Artisan	4
		Workman	2
News Corp	HarperCollins	Ecco	1
		Harlequin	1
		William Morrow	1
Phaidon Press			3
Harvard Common Press			2
Sasquatch Books			2
Bonnier	Weldon Owen		2
Andrews McMeel Universal	Andrews McMeel Publishing		1
Cedar Fort, Inc.	Front Table		1
Rowman & Littlefield	Globe Pequot Press		1
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A.	Rizzoli International		1
Hearst Books			1
Garden Way			1
Prospect Park Books			1
John Wiley & Sons			1
Kyle Books			1
Gibbs Smith			1
Midway			1
Levin Associates			1
O’Reilly Media			1
Ryland Peters & Small			1
Boston Common Press LP (dba America’s Test Kitchen)			1
Prima			1
Interlink Books			1

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